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World Health Organisation COVID-19 Training

Infection Prevention and Control for Healthcare Workers 12-16 April 2021

The Basic IPC for Healthcare Workers is an introductory course specifically designed for healthcare personnel requiring basic IPC knowledge with an emphasis on hand hygiene, standard precautions, and procedure-based transmission precautions in newly developing health systems. It is not designed to be totally comprehensive or extensive, but to introduce basic concepts of IPC to the learners. The aim of this short course is to familiarize healthcare personnel with evidence-based IPC practices to improve quality of care. The course is based on structured curricula and evidence and provides a basis for developing health policies for safe clinical practice for both patients and staff. The examination at the end of the course will be to assess competency. Click here to view the flyer.

World Health Organisation COVID-19 Training

We are pleased to announce three new courses which have recently become available on OpenWHO:

Standard precautions: Waste management: In this course, you will learn about the different categories of waste and the process for waste management. Health care waste includes all waste generated by health, research and laboratory facilities in the course of providing health care services. Health care waste in a facility should be managed from the point of generation to final disposal and removal.
Tobacco product regulation: Basic handbook: Although tobacco use is a major public health problem, tobacco products are one of the few openly available consumer products that are virtually unregulated in many countries for contents, emissions and design features. In this three-part series, you will first review the basics of tobacco product regulation and international guidance (Sections 1-2), steps to assessing regulatory needs and capacity and regulatory considerations (Sections 3-4), and finally, implementation and potential challenges, novel, new and modified tobacco or related products, and testing and disclosure (Sections 5-7).
Tobacco product regulation: Building laboratory testing capacity: In recent years, health authorities have become increasingly interested in the potential of tobacco product regulation to reduce the morbidity and mortality associated with tobacco use. This course provides practical, stepwise approaches to implementing tobacco testing to improve tobacco product regulation. Such guidance is relevant to a wide range of countries in various settings, even those with inadequate resources to establish a testing facility.

COVID-19 resources now available in 25 languages!

OpenWHO now has a total of 72 resources for COVID-19 spread across 25 languages, the newest being Amharic, Hausa, Odia and Swahili. Since last Thursday the 7th, 9 new language versions have been added:

A general introduction to emerging respiratory viruses, including novel coronaviruses in Amharic, Hausa, Odia and Swahili
How to put on and remove PPE for COVID-19 in Arabic
SARI treatment facility design in Indonesian and Spanish
An introduction to Go.Data in Spanish
IPC for COVID-19 in Vietnamese

Complete list of COVID-19 learning resources

In summary, OpenWHO currently offers courses covering the following topics and languages to support the response to COVID-19:

A general introduction to emerging respiratory viruses, including novel coronaviruses (available in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish, Amharic, Bengali, Hausa, Hindi, Hungarian, Indian Sign Language, Indonesian, Macedonian, Odia, Persian, Portuguese, Serbian, Swahili, Turkish, Vietnamese and Urdu);
Clinical care SARI (available in English, French, Russian, Spanish, Indonesian, Portuguese and Vietnamese);
Health and safety briefing for respiratory diseases – ePROTECT (available in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish, Indonesian and Portuguese);
IPC for COVID-19 (available in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Macedonian, Polish, Portuguese, Serbian, Turkish and Vietnamese);
COVID-19 operational planning guidelines and partners platform to support country preparedness and response (available in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Indonesian and Portuguese);
SARI treatment facility design (available in Arabic, English, Russian, Indonesian, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish);
An introduction to Go.Data (available in English and Spanish);
How to put on and remove PPE for COVID-19 (available in Arabic and English);
Standard precautions for hand hygiene (available in English and coming soon in additional languages); and
Standard precautions for waste management (available in English and coming soon in additional languages).

ICAN Training Courses

We are pleased to announce our education and training programme for 2019 below, please click on each course name to find out more information. Please note to find out more about the
Fundamentals of Infection Prevention and Control modular course please contact yolanda@icanetwork.co.za. To apply click here


Month	Training Course	Dates	Venue	Country
January	2019 Basic CSSD Course	28 Jan – 1 Feb 2019	Eastern Cape	South Africa
February	2019 Basic IPC for HC Workers	4-8 Feb 2019	Cape Town	South Africa
March	FIPC: Module 1 Micro	25-29 March 2019	Cape Town	South Africa
April	FIPC: Module 1 Micro	1-5 April 2019	Cape Town	South Africa
May	2019 Basic IPC for HCW Managers	6-10 May 2019	Cape Town	South Africa
June	2019 Basic IPC for HCW Managers	3-7 June 2019	Cape Town	South Africa
June	2019 TTT course	10-14 June 2019	Cape Town	South Africa
July	FIPC: Risk Module	1-5 July 2019	Cape Town	South Africa
July	FIPC: Surveillance Module	8-12 July 2019	Cape Town	South Africa
October	2019 Basic CSSD Course	21-25 October 2019	Cape Town	South Africa
October	FIPC: CSSD Course	21-25 October 2019	Cape Town	South Africa
October	FIPC: Hospital Design Module	28 Oct – 1 Nov 2019	Cape Town	South Africa